NURTURING QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH NATIONAL RANKING: A POTENTIAL EMPOWERMENT MODEL FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

NURTURING QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH NATIONAL RANKING: A POTENTIAL EMPOWERMENT MODEL FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Author:

Kusumastuti, Dyah; Idrus, Nirwan

Abstract:

This paper reviews the recently introduced National Higher
Education ranking system in Indonesia in order to evaluate
its potential as a sustainable model to improve the quality
of higher education in the country. It is a scaffold towards an
established world-universities ranking system that may prove
formidable for a developing country. This ranking system is
based on four quality criteria, namely quality of academics,
of management, of research and of students, each with its
own weighting factor and scale. It is found that the actions
and inactions of institutions vis á vis their continuous quality
improvement may reflect their ranks. In countries where
the thirst for higher education is high such as in developing
countries, institutions’ ranks play a decisive competitive role.
A rational, transparent, bona fide and dependable national
ranking system is realistic in helping to improve the quality of
higher education in the country.

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